George bracket: 2017 Yankees defeat 1961 Indians in five games

Game 1: Yankees 2. Indians 0
WP: Severino (2-1)
LP: Grant (3-1)
Save: Chapman (4)
HR: Judge (6)

Game 2: Yankees 4, Indians 3
WP: Warren (2-0)
LP: Bell (0-3)
Save: Chapman (5)
HR: Judge (7), Piersall (1), Dillard (2)

Game 3: Yankees 4, Indians 2
WP: Green (2-0)
LP: Stigman (0-3)
Save: Chapman (6)
HR: T Frazier 2 (2)

Game 4: Indians 2, Yankees 1
WP: Latman (3-0)
LP: Pineda (0-1)
Save: Funk (3)
HR: Sanchez (7)

Game 5: Yankees 5, Indians 2
WP: Severino (3-1)
LP: Grant (3-2)
Save: Chapman (7)
HR: Judge (8), Kirkland (4)

The Yankee bullpen collectively worked 13 scoreless innings over the five games, allowing two hits.

Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first of the Yankee Stadium opener off Mudcat Grant, and that concluded the scoring for the day, Luis Severino allowed four hits in six innings for the win, and Dellin Betances, David Robertson and Aroldis Chapman each worked an inning.

Judge tied Game Two with an eighth-inning homer off Gary Bell. Chase Headley doubled home Gary Sanchez later in the inning with the winning run. Adam Warren, the second of three relievers, got the win.

The series shifted to 1961 and Municipal Stadium in Cleveland for Game Three. Todd Frazier hit a pair of homers and drove in all four runs to wreck Dick Stigman's long relief outing, initated when start Jim Perry was injured after two scoreless innings. Stigman allowed four runs on five hits in six innings. Chad Green was credited with the win.

Michael Pineda, New York's fourth starter for this series, wild-pitched home both Cleveland runs in Game Four. That was enough for the Tribe, who got seven innings of one-run, four-hit ball from Barry Latman and pieced together the final six outs from three relievers.

Severino and the bullpen wrapped up the series in Game Five. Judge hit his third homer of the series in the fourth inning. Severino didn't allow a hit until two outs into the sixth, when Willie Kirkland followed a Starlin Castro error with a homer. Severino finished the inning, but the Yankees then started their bullpen parade, with Tommy Kahnle, Robertson and Chapman each throwing a hitless inning -- a four-pitcher one-hitter.

Player of the series: Aroldis Chapman

Yankee staff on full rest for the next round.

Projected rotation: Severino-Tanaka-Sabathia-Montgomery-(Severino)-(Tanaka)-(Sabathia)